[Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/30 Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
>> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> well, brand="brand of a car" is one of the first mentions of brand in
>>> the wiki, at least for some years it's there. I don't see a problem.
>>
>> Which wiki page is that? I just created the brand page yesterday.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/car

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dcar however uses
operator and brand differently. But we're changing this usage of
operator to brand, so to keep the distinction we need to change brand
to something else.
>
> don't know if there are other pages (no time at the moment for wiki searches).
> As said above: maybe not a big issue. I can think of a problem though:
> Imagine a car-dealer trust, that sells cars under the brand of
> "Shinecars" but actually their business modell is a franchise, ie. the
> single car dealer (operator) is independent. They only sell Mercedes
> of course. Now, which brand-tag would this be? This might be easily
> solved with car:brand=Mercedes Benz.

That seems reasonable. Mercedes-Benz is the brand of what's being
sold, not the brand of the dealership itself (although some car
companies may open up stores in their own name; then brand would be
appropriate). On the other hand McDonald's is the brand of the
restaurant as well as of some of the food being sold there.